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A rebate could save Group Ten Metals TSXV:PGE up to a third of its exploration spending on the Drayton-Black Lake gold project in northwestern Ontario. On July 12 the company announced the Junior Exploration Assistance Program approved a maximum $100,000 rebate. The provincial government’s Northern Ontario Heritage Fund and the Ontario Prospectors Association sponsor the program.

The company proposed a 20-hole, 2,000-metre drill campaign for the project’s Moretti area where historic, non-43-101 results averaged 18.65 grams per tonne gold in a 4,087-kilogram bulk sample and 14.1 g/t for an 8,069-kilo sample.

The property, partly staked and partly under option, sits 10 kilometres south of the town of Sioux Lookout in the vicinity of First Mining Finance’s (TSXV:FF) Goldlund project and Treasury Metals’ (TSX:TML) Goliath project.

The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund is a provincial Crown corporation that invests in regional businesses. The Ontario Prospectors Association approves JEAP funding following a review of expenses submitted after early exploration work has been completed.

In the Yukon, Group Ten has Phase II exploration planned for its Catalyst PGM-nickel-copper project adjacent to Wellgreen Platinum TSX:WG. Group Ten holds three Yukon projects with the dominant land position in the Kluane Ultramafic Belt. The company’s portfolio also includes the Duke Island copper-nickel-PGE project on the Alaska Panhandle.

Lithium, not surprisingly, stood out as a commodity of interest. While cautioning against over-enthusiasm for the exploration rush, Berry and Hykawy each affirmed the need for juniors to find new sources of the metal. Cobalt and scandium featured prominently too, as did other commodities including what Kaiser called “the weird metals”—lesser known stuff that’s vital to our lives but threatened with security of supply.

Kaiser also noted he was addressing a crowd larger than his last PDAC audience, another indication that “we’ve turned the corner.”

Attendees also met and mingled with company reps. Potential investors learned about a wide gamut of projects aspiring to meet a growing demand for necessities, conveniences and luxuries.

Presented by Zimtu Capital TSXV:ZC, the forum’s success will make it an annual event, said company president Dave Hodge. Berry emceed the conference, holding the unenviable task of “making sure Dave stays well-behaved.”

Most companies were core holdings of Zimtu, a prospect generator that connects explorers with properties and also shares management, technical and financing expertise. Zimtu offers investors participation in a range of commodities and companies, including some at the pre-IPO stage.

After sampling high-grade lithium on its Hidden Lake project in the Northwest Territories earlier this month, 92 Resources TSXV:NTY plans to return in mid-July for a program of mapping, exposing spodumene-bearing pegmatite dykes, and channel sampling. The company closed the final tranche of a private placement totalling $318,836 in April. Hidden Lake’s located near Highway 4, about 40 kilometres from Yellowknife and within the Yellowknife Pegmatite Belt.

With one of the Athabasca Basin’s largest and most prospective exploration portfolios, ALX Uranium TSXV:AL has a number of projects competing for flagship status. Among them is Hook-Carter, which covers extensions of three known conductive trends, one of them hosting the sensational discoveries of Fission Uranium TSX:FCU and NexGen Energy TSXV:NXE. ALX’s strategic partnership with Holystone Energy allows that company to invest up to $750,000 in ALX and retain the right to maintain its ownership level for three years. ALX closed a private placement first tranche of $255,000 last month, amid this year’s busy news flow from a number of the company’s active projects.

Arctic Star Exploration TSXV:ADD boasts one of northern Canada’s largest 100%-held diamond exploration portfolios. Among the properties are the drill-ready Stein project in Nunavut and others in the Lac de Gras region that’s the world’s third-largest diamond producer by value. North Arrow Minerals TSXV:NAR holds an option to earn up to 55% of Arctic Star’s Redemption property.

Aurvista Gold TSXV:AVA considers its Douay property one of Quebec’s largest and last undeveloped gold projects. The Abitibi property has resources totalling 238,400 ounces of gold indicated and 2.75 million ounces inferred. Now, with $1.1 million raised last month, the company hopes to increase those numbers through a summer program including 4,000 metres of drilling. Douay’s 2014 PEA used a 5% discount rate to forecast a post-tax NPV of $16.6 million and a post-tax IRR of 40%.

Looking for lithium in Nevada, Belmont Resources TSXV:BEA now has a geophysics crew en route to its Kibby Basin property, which the company believes could potentially host lithium-bearing brines in a similar geological setting to the Clayton Valley, about 65 kilometres south. Results from the gravity survey will help identify targets for direct push drilling and sampling.

A mineral perhaps overlooked in the effort to supply green technologies, zeolite has several environmental applications. Canadian Zeolite TSXV:CNZ holds two projects in southern British Columbia, Sun Group and Bromley Creek, the latter an active quarrying operation.

With a high-grade, near-surface rare earths deposit hosted in minerals that have proven processing, Commerce Resources TSXV:CCE takes its Ashram project in Quebec towards pre-feasibility. The relatively straightforward mineralogy contributes to steady progress in metallurgical studies. Commerce also holds southeastern B.C.’s Blue River tantalum-niobium deposit, which reached PEA in 2011 and a resource update in 2013.

Permitted for construction following a 2014 PEA, Copper North Mining’s (TSXV:COL) Carmacks copper-gold-silver project now undergoes revised PEA studies. The agenda calls for improved economics by creating a new leach and development plan for the south-central Yukon property. In central B.C. the company holds the Thor exploration property, 20 kilometres south of the historic Kemess mine.

One week after expanding its Yukon PGM-nickel-copper property, Group Ten Metals TSXV:PGE updated its Drayton-Black Lake gold project in northwestern Ontario. Following a review of historic results, the company has chosen targets for a recommended 20-hole 2,000-metre drill campaign.

Located in the same belt hosting Treasury Metals’ (TSX:TML) Goliath, Tamaka Gold’s Goldlund and New Gold’s (TSX:NGD) Rainy River projects, Group Ten’s 7,968-hectare property includes an historic database with multiple high-grade bulk samples and over 120 drill holes, as well as geological, geochemical and geophysical data, the company states. “While 43% of past drill holes intercepted gold or copper mineralization, they did not adequately test the mineralized zones, which are now better understood in the area.”

Trench mapping and surface sampling in the property’s Moretti area indicate higher-grade mineralization occurs within steeply plunging shoots averaging less than 30 metres long and 10 metres thick, Group Ten found. While historic drilling was too widely spaced to effectively test the shoots, the company’s recommended 20 holes would be collared about 20 metres apart.

“The dimensions of these shoots are similar in size to those delineated by closely spaced drilling at the Goliath project, where shoots have been traced down plunge for as much as several hundred metres,” Group Ten added.

The company also proposes additional mapping and sampling on the property’s Bonanza, Dragfold and Clamshell areas.

Last week the company announced completion of a field program on its Spy project in southwestern Yukon. The company staked an additional 1,250 hectares, bringing the property up to 3,135 hectares. Results are pending from silt and rock sampling, prospecting, mapping and reinterpretation of previous geophysics. Historic, non-43-101 grab samples have assayed as high as 75.8 grams per tonne platinum, 7.9 g/t palladium, 7 g/t gold, 2.6% nickel and 10.45% copper.

Still growing its northern presence, Group Ten Metals TSXV:PGE has staked additional ground for the Spy project in southwestern Yukon. That increases the platinum group metals-nickel-copper property by 1,250 hectares to total 3,135 hectares, the company announced February 29.

Assays are pending from a sampling program on Group Ten Metals’ expanded Spy property.

Group Ten optioned 100% of the first claim block in September for 1.05 million shares over three years and a 3% NSR. With funding assistance from the Yukon government, the company then conducted silt and rock sampling, prospecting, mapping and reinterpretation of previous geophysics. Once assays arrive, they’ll be integrated with the geophysical reinterpretation to define targets for trenching and possibly drilling.

Spy comprises one of three road-accessible Group Ten projects in the 600-kilometre-long Kluane Ultramafic Belt, stretching from northern British Columbia through the Yukon into southern Alaska. Roughly 40 kilometres north of Spy sits Group Ten’s flagship Catalyst project, which borders on three sides the Wellgreen PGM-nickel project, where Wellgreen Platinum TSX:WG completed a preliminary economic assessment last year. Group Ten’s Ultra project sits south of Spy.

In September the company also picked up the Duke Island copper-nickel-PGE project on the Alaska Panhandle for two million shares and a 1% NSR. In western Ontario Group Ten holds the Black Lake/Drayton gold project.